Polycount for characters in mobile fighting game

Flipain

I'm planing to do a fighting game for smartphones in which there can be up to 4 characters on screen at once, so what polycount would be acceptable for the main characters?

sharpened

I'd probably say to keep it under 60,000 (so 15,000 a piece) to be super safe.  Assuming you're going to have some textures and backgrounds.  You'd probably be good up to about 200,000 total, after that you'd probably start seeing some performance problems.

I worked on a VR app for daydream where we had 5 or 6 models at 30,000 with minimal texture maps and the phone started to struggle and get pretty hot after 10-15mins, granted it was VR...

Flipain

Isn't 15,000 too much? I mean, apparently that's what the character of Gears of War had.

RawData

In our game we have 2000 to 5000 characters and while Game running we spawn 20-30 of them, maybe more. You can check it out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BartuCemGames.TheFightWithin

Flipain

Thanks for your answers, I will make the models 10k - 15k tris max.